Spring Now Blooms

Original lyrics set to the tune of Now the Green Blade Rises.
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Lyrics:
  
Early in the morning we come to the tomb,

bearing sins and sorrows,wounds and hearts of gloom.

But what is this?The stone is rolled away!

And the tomb is empty! Wonder and dismay!
  
* Verse 2, Synoptic version:
Then an angel greets us, speaking to our fear,

saying “Christ is risen. See, he is not here.”

Now our despair itself has passed away,

and we feel new life rise in the dawning day.
  
* Verse 2, John version
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So we ask the gardener where the body is—

and we hear the voice and know that it is his.

“Why do you weep?” Such sadness fills our eyes.

Then we see and fill with joy and glad surprise.
  


Christ now stands before us, living as he said.

Oh, what hope he brings us, rising from the dead! 

Night was so dark, but with the rising sun

everything is changed now, in this grace-filled dawn.


  
We give God our spirits, buried just like seeds,

and emerge forgiven, healed, made new and freed.

Sorrow and dread are changed to joy instead. 

Spring now blooms, for Christ is risen from the dead!